In an industry that seems to crank out CGI-ified blockbusters every week, there’s a resurgent appreciation for handcrafted work like Please’s. Disney Animation’s 2012 short film Paperman, for instance, was made with software that layers hand-drawn frames over computer-generated ones. Likewise, Please’s styrofoam pieces have an ethereal physicality to them, from the way they catch light to the slight, inevitable ridges in the material’s surface. “Animation can be totally alien,” he says. With this, “you can kind of see the process in it, how it actually came to be. It brings you closer to film. It’s a bridge between the audience and the maker.”
source: wired.com By Margaret Rhodes